Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.
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I would certainly like to see some young women take up psychoanalysis seriously and reconstruct it from an absolutely new viewpoint.
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The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.
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The renewed use of lobotomy today is particularly applicable to women: Because they do routine things, it is possible to take away their spirit of revolt, of debate, of criticism, and still leave them perfectly capable of making stews or washing dishes. It's terrible, this tendency to consider women something dangerous to society.
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It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.
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Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
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Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.
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I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.
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There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.' There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love only me.
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The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain.
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I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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We belong to this earth. Now I can see the truth ... I love you on this earth of ours. Love me, do!
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
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To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not exist a mathematics which is only a women's mathematics, or a feminine science.
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Live with no time-out.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass."
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Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.
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To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system.
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Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.